Sue Hubbard is a writer whose work is deeply informed by her background as an art critic. She skillfully weaves critical insights into her novels and poetry, exploring the intricate connections between art and human experience. Her writing offers a unique perspective on contemporary culture, characterized by a keen eye for detail and a distinctive voice that resonates with readers.
A publication documenting British artist Ian McKeever’s exhibitions Against Architecture at Matt’s Gallery, London (2017) and Against Architecture, Remodelled at TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth (2023–24). The exhibitions explored the relationships between McKeever’s photo/painted panels and the physical spaces in which they were presented.
God's Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 - 1939). Illustrated with precision, authenticity and a keen painterly eye, God's Little Artist is a celebration of John's life and work, by poet, novelist and art critic Sue Hubbard.
A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of the English Fens during World War II Perfect for fans of Atonement, this gorgeous coming of age explores the connection between Philip, a conscientious objector, and Freda, a young London evacuee housed by a cruel family Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of the war, leaving behind everything familiar to her, to escape the expected German bombing. In her new temporary home in Lincolnshire, Freda finds herself billeted with a strange, cold and, ultimately, abusive couple, whose lives mirror the barren landscape in which they live a hand to mouth existence, based upon subsistence farming and poaching. There, deprived of any warmth, she meets a young man - Philip Rhayader -a conscientious objector who has left Oxford and his prospective vocation in the church following a nervous breakdown. Together they explore the wild, beautiful landscape of the Wash, teeming with migrating birds, and nurse an injured goose back to health. As they do so, Philip introduces Freda to the wonders of the natural world and its enduring power to heal.
The first collection by UK poet, novelist, and art critic Sue Hubbard.
"A triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: Masterly, moving and beautifully written." -- Fay Weldon A dazzling novel about groundbreaking artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker -- a brilliant early expressionist who toiled under the shadow of her lover Rainer Maria Rilke Perfect for fans of Georgia by Dawn Tripp and The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer Girl in White is the extraordinary story of the German expressionist painter Paula Modershohn-Becker (1876-1907), told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter, Mathilde. Written with the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet this moving story is a meditation on love, loss, memory and, ultimately, hope. Paula Modersohn-Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death. Poet and art critic Sue Hubbard draws on the artist's diaries and paintings to bring to life her singular existence, her battle to achieve independence and recognition and her intense relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife, and mother. Not only do we discover Paula's vibrant personality and rich legacy of Expressionist paintings, but also come to understand something of the corrupted ideologies of the Third Reich in a book that’s perfect for fans of books like Georgia by Dawn Tripp and The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer.
A publication of British artist Ian McKeever's Henge paintings (2017-22) - abstract works inspired by neolithic standing stones in Wiltshire, England. Featuring an essay by Paul Moorhouse and a conversation with Jon Wood, the publication accompanies shows at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, and Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, Connecticut.
London-based painter, Sarah Medway, presents a series of twenty-eight abstract paintings inspired by the River Thames. It features an introductory text by Sue Hubbard, a conversation with Anna McNay, and an illustrated chronology of the artist's life and career.
Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into tensions between entrepreneur Eugene Riordan and local hill farmer Paddy O'Connell, while also coming to know a young poet, Colm. Caught between its history and its future, the Celtic Tiger reels with change, and Martha faces redemptive choices that will change her life forever.
Jason Martin makes paintings about paint - its materiality, sculptural presence and transformative, alchemical nature. The energy of Martin's process is palpable in a new series of rich, dark, monochromatic oil on aluminium works. In Tempest (2011), the dense swathes of colour are applied in thick, fluid, overlaid brushstrokes. Light plays across the surface echoing the dynamism and vigour of its making. Sensual and tactile, each work in this group is definitively autonomous. The titles invite contemplation and emphasise the inherent narrative of the work but the meaning is mutable. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Jason Martin: Infinitive at Lisson Gallery, London in May 2012. Accompanied by an essay by Sue Hubbard.
This is the most comprehensive publication on Mat Collishaw's career to date. It features an essay by Sue Hubbard, an interview by Rachel Campbell-Johnston and over 250 colour images spanning more than two decades of work. The artist is a key figure in the important generation of British artists (YBAs) who emerged from Goldsmith's College in the late 1980s. Collishaw's art envelops us in a twilight world poised between the alluring and the revolting, the familiar and the shocking, the poetic and the morbid. With a visual language embracing diverse media, the beauty of Collishaw's work draws us in - seductive, captivating, hypnotic - only to more forcefully repel us as we perceive the darker fantasies within. A repulsion triggered not by what we see, but by our innate response to it. Pornography, the crucifixion, gleaming fairies, syphilitic child prostitutes, bestiality, bondage, addiction, religion, exaltation and despair, even the final hours of a death-row inmate. There is seemingly no taboo left unbroken, no dark corner Collishaw is unwilling to explore - and yet, the work is utterly romantic, exquisitely beautiful, an expression of Collishaw's wish to 'create images that are awe-inspiring'. This book has been published on the occasion of the artist's first ever exhibition of paintings, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT at BlainSouthern, London (14 February - 30 March 2013).
